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It has been a battle royal between the Take That men and 1D, as all three albums have sold over 116,000 copies over the last seven days, with Swings Both Ways and Midnight Memories clocking up more than 126,000 sales apiece.

One Direction now have the biggest selling artist album released in the UK in 2013. If sales continue at this rate, the 1D boys could overtake Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events as the overall biggest album of 2013 come the end of the year.